WHY YOUR DISABILITY CASE WAS DENIED BY SOCIAL SECURITY

TOP 10 REASONS SOCIAL SECURITY DENIES DISABILITY CLAIMS -

10.  The application wasn't completed properly.
09.  Some of the medical evidence didn't come in.
08.  You had an inexperienced claims examiner.
07.  A medical expert never reviewed your claim.
06.  Too much weight was given to a non-treating
       consultative doctor who saw you only once.
05.  You failed to list all of your treating sources.
04.  You gave an incomplete or improper history of
       "past relevant work," i.e., past employment.
03.  You did not give a complete accounting of the
       severity of your symptoms.
02.  Social Security couldn't be sure, so they erred 
       on the side of caution and denied your claim.

...and the Number 1 reason Social Security denies disability claims....

01.  They assigned the wrong "residual
       function capacity" (RFC).  

This means that Social Security determined that you can perform medium work, when you are really restricted to light work.  Or, they determined that you can perform light work when you are really restricted to sedentary work.  Or, perhaps they failed to take into account mental or emotional restrictions such as lack of concentration, inability to keep up the required pace, persist for 8 hours per day, etc.

How do you fix it?  Do you file a new claim?

No.  Filing a new claim is usually not the correct way to fix a denial.  It is nearly always best to appeal the denied claim, kicking it up the ladder to a higher level of judicial review.  The odds of being approved with a new application are less than 30 percent.  The odds of being approved on appeal can be twice that high.  Also, by winning an appeal you can potentially protect all of your past due benefits back to the original onset date.